Rainer Maria Rilke: I Believe In All

 

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for

 

may for once spring clear
without my contriving.

 

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.

 

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing to you as no one ever has,

 

streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.

 

— Rainer Maria Rilke